'Nor do you have to,' Nick said in an oddly gentle voice.

They slid down her cheeks, silent as snow and oddly gentle.

His eyes were oddly gentle in the pure, cold light.

He was oddly gentle, never taking advantage of his size.

His voice was oddly gentle, and she felt a tremor at the unfamiliar tone.

"Because I need to," Johnny said in an oddly gentle voice.

Barney asked the question in-for her- an oddly gentle voice.

He smiled again, with the oddly gentle charm that shouldn't have suited his eyes yet somehow did.

The king waved one hand in an oddly gentle gesture of dismissal.

His eyes, she thought, were oddly gentle in such a strongly featured face.